Wave Media Vocabulary

What is a medium?

• The initial source of the wave

• The matter that a mechanical wave travels through

• The endpoint of the wave

• The frequency of the wave

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What is a scale model?

• A tool to measure the weight of an object

• A small-scale representation of a system or object with different proportions

• A representation of a system or object that is larger or smaller than the object, but all parts of the object are the same relative size

• A mathematical model that does not represent physical objects

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What is absorption?

• The reflection of a wave off a surface

• The bending of a wave as it passes into a new medium

• The disappearance of a wave into a vacuum

• When a wave transfers energy to the medium it is passing through

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What is reflection?

• When a wave passes through the boundary between two media

• When a wave bends as it is transmitted from one medium into other medium

• When a wave reaches a boundary between two media and bounces back

• When I look in the mirror, I see myself

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What is Transmission?

• When a wave passes through the boundary between two media

• When the wave is absorbed

• When matter passes through the boundary between two medium

• The wave being bounced back of the medium

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What is a ray in a diagram?

• A wave that travels in a specific direction

• a straight arrow in a diagram used to represent the direction a wave travels

• A representation of a system or object that is larger or smaller than the object, but all parts of the object are the same relative size

• When a wave bends as it is transmitted from one medium into other medium

What is refraction?

• An ocean wave that moves in different directions

• When a wave transfers energy to the medium it is passing through

• When a wave reaches a boundary between two media and bounces back

• When a wave bends as it is transmitted from one medium into other medium

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What happens to a sound wave when it passes though a boundary like a window?

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I understand the wave media vocabulary...

• a little

• pretty good

• I got it down

• not at all

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